Putting the certification courses on the back of CPW will also remove funding from the “Parks and Wildlife” part of CPW, which is arguably more important given how often Colorado is a tinderbox these days, and we want our CPW folks managing the parks and wildlife.

Polis said on some TV blurb that they’ll make a money program for those too poor to afford the classes to not make this a tax on the poors, and that they’d hope to cap the classes at “under” $200 to keep them affordable. To add an extra layer of complexity on a layer of complexity.

Training is good, full stop. However, they could have chosen a different tack, this all seems rushed and ill-thought-out.